SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Groupon Inc
launched a point-of-sale service called Breadcrumb across the
United States on Wednesday as the world’s largest daily deal
company tries to win more restaurants as clients.

Breadcrumb is a sales, order management and reporting system
for restaurants, bars and cafes that runs on Apple Inc’s
iPad. It was designed a start-up founded by Seth
Harris. Groupon acquired the business in May.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is producing its own movies and TV programming using the consumer tracking and data crunching skills it developed while becoming the world’s largest Internet retailer.

Essentially, Amazon is crowdsourcing the creation of original content — movies such as “Zombies versus Gladiators” and the children’s TV series “Magic Monkey Billionaire.”

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s deal to purchase streaming movies from cable network Epix could transform the way such deals are done, thanks to a pay-for-performance sweetener that had not been previously disclosed.

According to an executive directly involved in the deal, Amazon agreed to an earn-out provision payable to Epix over time if the number of subscribers to Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service rises above a certain threshold. That comes in addition to a fixed upfront fee, the basis for most subscription video-on-demand deals up to this point.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s
deal to purchase streaming movies from cable network Epix could
transform the way such deals are done, thanks to a
pay-for-performance sweetener that had not been previously
disclosed.

According to an executive directly involved in the deal,
Amazon agreed to an earn-out provision payable to Epix over time
if the number of subscribers to Amazon’s Prime Instant Video
service rises above a certain threshold. That comes in addition
to a fixed upfront fee, the basis for most subscription
video-on-demand deals up to this point.

Oct 5 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc said on Friday it
will spend over $1 billion to buy its Seattle corporate
headquarters in what will be the United States’ biggest
commercial real estate deal so far this year for a single
location.

The world’s largest Internet retailer plans to buy a complex
of 11 buildings in the trendy South Lake Union area, comprising
1.8 million square feet of office space, for $1.16 billion from
Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen’s investment firm.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is launching a new business offering loans to some of its online sellers, a move that could boost the growth of its Internet marketplace while exposing it to potential credit risks.

The new program is called Amazon Lending and sellers on the company’s marketplace have been sent emails offering loans from Amazon Capital Services Inc, a unit of Amazon, according to a merchant who received such an email from the company recently. The merchant did not want to be identified because Amazon has not announced the program publicly.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc (FB.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said it will start charging businesses to run Offers on its social network, turning a previously free service into a potential revenue generator at a time when Wall Street is demanding new sources of growth and profit from the company.

Facebook launched Facebook Offers earlier this year, letting retailers and other local merchants send deals to their Facebook fans. Users claim the offers from their News Feeds and redeem the vouchers at stores to get discounts.